World News Update, what you need to know

DIVERS have retrieved the first bodies from the submerged South Korean ferry that capsized nearly four days ago, marking a grim new stage in the search and recovery process.

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SYDNEY - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 has struck off Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey says, but a tsunami warning issued for PNG and the Solomon Islands has been cancelled.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has baptised 10 people and urged them to bring their faith "to the ends of the earth" as he presided over an Easter Vigil in St Peter's Basilica.

KATHMANDU - An Australian mountaineer who narrowly escaped the deadliest accident ever on Mount Everest says some local guides and climbers are questioning whether to scrap their summit plans after 13 Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche.

JUBA - More than 100 people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan's Warrap state, a local information minister has told UN radio, the latest atrocity in the war-torn country.

LONDON - A mother and two children have been forced to flee their car after it overheated and caught fire in a lion enclosure in a safari park in Britain.

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